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Which is the best -- the Moon or the Crescent?

By Emily DickinsonSource: Emily Dickinson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)40 words

Which is the best -- the Moon or the Crescent?

Neither -- said the Moon --

That is best which is not -- Achieve it --

You efface the Sheen.

Not of detention is Fruition --

Shudder to attain.

Transport's decomposition follows --

He is Prism born.

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